The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-23

condition.
Mrs. Cleveland has been elected a
trustee of Wells College, with Miss Helen
F. Smith, the principal. They are the
first women chosen to the Board.
Jefferson Davis is blind in one
eye, but few persons know how he
lost the organ. When he was about
years old he and his cousin,
Joseph L. Davis, were shooting with
crossbows at mark on a pine stump.
One of the bolts fred by young Jefferson
few back and struck him squarely in the
eye, putting it completely out.
The first place in classics at Ok
ford, England, BIAS just been won by q
woman. Miss Agnats Ramsay, Girtcn
girl, has gained the victory over all the
male students, being the only one Of
either sex to pass in the first division.
Her proficiency in Latin and Greek was
equal. Miss Ramsay has just reach
ed twenty years; several of her male COM
petitors were older.
1t is stated that Miss Mollie Gar
field, only daughter of the late President
James A. Garfield, is engaged to be mar
ried to J. Stanley Brown, who was her
fathers private secretary during bis brief
career in the presidential Office. Mr..
Brown has been very intimate with the
Garfelds since the death of the Presi-
ident. He is many years the senior of
Miss Mollie. The Garfield family now
live in the old homestead in Mentor.
Miss Sophia Tricoupis, sister of
the Prime Minister of Greece, is one of
the leaders of Athenian society. She is
slender, fragile-looking old lady, who
lives surrounded with flowers. Her
brothers friends, knowing her fondness
for them, send Der dozens of bouquets
every day. She never "goes anywhere"
but receives from ten in the morning
until midnight. In Athens she is pow
or. As correspondent she is indefa-
tigable, writing dozens OF letters in as
many different languages every day.
1t is said that General Albert Pike,
poet, scholar, and grand commander OF
the southern jurisdiction of Free Masons,
lives, at the age Of seventy seven, in re-
tirement at Washington, d. @. He is
tall, robust and handsome. He spends
his time in his library translatmg the
Sanscrit books OF Veda. General Pike
has translated seventeen volumes of q
thousand pages each. None of them
have yet been printed. The General is
an accomplished linguist, and as well &C.
quainted with modern languages as with
ancient.
Canon Fleming, the queens chap
lain, confesses to the stealing of one of
DR.. Talmage's sermons, but says he did
it inadvertently, and asks pardon. The
New York Christian Advocate, comment
ing on this incident, says: DR.. Talmage
has had the honor of being stolen from
several times. That plagiarists
should steal from him is even more cred
ible than that any person of sense could
think it possible to steal from him and
not be detected. For the Talmagian i'm
print is as distinct as the fossil footprints
found in the sub carboniferous red
shales."
Prof. Oscar LEM, who has crossed
Africa almost entirely on foot, ascribes
his escape from all climatic dangers to
his strict attention to hygienic rules. He
abstained from raw fruit and never drank
unboiled water. His usual food was rice,
chicken and tea. He never touched wine
or spirits. He carefully avoided bathing
in rivers and pools of clear, cold water,
so tempting to travellers, but SO apt to
give fatal chills. He dressed in hannels
and avoided exposure to the night air.
He thus passed unscathed through dis
tricts reeking with marsh fevers, ague
and small -pox.
The Rev. John Jasper says he has
preached his famous "Sun do move" SER
mon about hundred times. 81 preached
it first" he says, in 1873" Since then 1
have had offers from all over this coun-
try and from London, Paris and other
places to go and preach it; but l refused
EN- all, cause didn't think it would be
right to leave my people. One man Of
fered me $400 to go to London and preach
the sermon. He even said he would pay
me the money first, and that I wouldn't
have to walk step between here and
Europe, and wouldn't have to walk step
after I got there" He is now very old,
but hale and vigorous.
Mr.. Gladstone relates that when he
was a young and ardent Tory at Oxford,
he ventured to expostulate with Liberal
workman who was taking part in the re-
form agitation. Mr.. Gladstone urged
him to beware of these revolutionary no.
tons, and besought him to take warning
by the fate of France. The honest work
man listened respectfully for time and
then broke out with reply which Mr..
Gladstone to this day admits was conclu-
sive. "Damn your foreign nationsP' said
he, "Whst has that got to do with old
England?" Mr.. Gladstone thinks Eng
lishmen to-day are too apt to assume just